Tara Dewan

Tara is an associate lawyer in the Business Law Group and the Financial Services Group at Gardiner Roberts. Her practice covers a broad range of corporate, commercial and financing matters, with a focus on corporate governance, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and secured lending transactions.

Tara regularly advises entrepreneurs, business owners and private corporations of all sizes on various business law matters, including incorporations, shareholders agreements, contract preparation and review, corporate governance, amalgamations, reorganizations, estate freezes and dissolutions. She also assists sellers and buyers with share and asset transactions. Her clients span across many industries, including commercial real estate, energy and infrastructure, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, food and beverages, lumber, manufacturing, non-profits, and technology.

Tara also advises Canadian Schedule I banks, institutional lenders and private lenders on domestic, cross‐border and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, as well as payouts, enforcement, restructuring and insolvencies. Her financing practice includes borrower-side work, where she assists borrowers with obtaining and implementing financing solutions that align with their business goals and strategic objectives.

Tara is a regular speaker at client Lunch and Learn events hosted by the Firm.

Expertise

Representative work

• Acted for a group of Canadian corporations on the reorganization of their $400 million financial advisory business.
• Acted for an investment firm that funds, develops and manages energy-efficient commercial and residential building retrofits.
• Acted for a Canadian corporation on various acquisitions of home and community health care businesses via share and asset transactions.
• Acted for non-profit organization on the acquisition of a non-profit affordable housing development company.
• Acted for a franchisee on the sale of its McDonald’s Restaurant business.
• Acted for an investment firm on various acquisitions of commercial real estate and manufacturing businesses via share and asset transactions.
• Acted for a Canadian Schedule I bank on $150 million commercial real estate financing facilities to a leading Canadian hospitality investment, development and management group.
• Acted for a Canadian Schedule I bank on credit facilities to a food and beverages business in connection with the acquisition and renovation of a new restaurant location.
• Acted for a Canadian Schedule I bank on cross-border asset-based lending facilities to an oil and natural gas company.
• Acted for a Canadian Schedule I bank on security enforcement and exits for various special loans matters.